Google Pixel Research

1. Simplified Phones for Adults: I barely use the features of a phone and I know that my parents struggle a lot as well. Inspired by children's phones with few buttons, functions, and aesthetics, can we create a simplified phone for adults? (experimental) So, addressing a phone as a toy.

2. Expiration Phones: We know that our phones will die or we'll change them at some point. What if our phones had a fixed expiration time? If it's 100 hours for example, how would my relationship and usage change? (discursive) What if phones were like disposable cameras? The movie In Time is an inspo.

3. Ending Calls Thoughtfully: The musical mobile (discursive) example made me think of ways to end long-lasting phone calls. I struggle a lot with this because sometimes a friend doesn't hang up. What's the socially appropriate context to hang up a call? (discursive but also experimental?)

4. Let's Grow a Starter: By using the built-in temperature sensor, can we monitor and ensure the conditions for optimal yeast fermentation? (experimental)

- applied use?

- not a phone

-being critical with the relationship

-what’s the form factor?

-hide?

*Inspo for #4 from Pedro - Tardigochi

*Other ideas and inspiration - Punkt https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
Light phone https://www.thelightphone.com

These processes are influenced by conditions intrinsic to the starter itself, including the ingredients (e.g., flour and water) and the recipe. They are also influenced by extrinsic factors, such as baking practices, storage temperature, the amount of starter used during propagation, the number of propagation steps, and fermentation time.

The community is provisioned with resources over the course of 5–15 days through continuous refreshment with flour and water, also known as backslopping or propagation, during which part of the mixture is discarded.

Type I sourdough starters are most commonly used in artisanal bakeries and are usually kept at ambient temperature (20–30 ◦C).

How Long Will It Take?
To create a sourdough starter from scratch, the overall process will take 7 days (or more) from start to finish. It’s not instant. First, you’ll create the starter with whole wheat flour to jumpstart fermentation. Then, you’ll continue to feed it with regular all purpose flour to cultivate the wild yeasts and friendly bacteria.

When Will it Be Ready To Use?
Your starter is ready to use when it has doubled in size, with plenty of bubbles on the surface and throughout the culture.

https://asm.org/articles/2020/june/the-sourdough-microbiome

http://robdunnlab.com/projects/wildsourdough/

https://www.theclevercarrot.com/2019/03/beginner-sourdough-starter-recipe/

https://www.theperfectloaf.com/7-easy-steps-making-incredible-sourdough-starter-scratch/

https://littlespoonfarm.com/sourdough-starter-recipe/

Technological or aesthetic modifications give them their own identity. They are multifunctional and stylish. Shanzhai products are characterized in particular by a high degree of flex- ibility.

Technological or aesthetic modifications give them their own identity. They are multifunctional and stylish. Shanzhai products are characterized in particular by a high degree of flex- ibility.

The ingenuity of shanzhai products is frequently superior to that of the original. For example, one shanzhai cell phone has the additional function of being able to identify counterfeit money.

Shanzai products do not delibaretly set out to deceive. Indeed, their attraction lies in how specifically draw attention to the fact that they are not original, that they are playing with the original.

   

Remanufactured / Recycled / Fake replacements / Reverse Engineering

I started to notice through small, humble gestures how to collect, repair and reuse, and the potential to alter and question means of production. I understood the political dimension of these gestures and the unorthodox, inclusive and liberating character of what, years later, I would come to call ‘technological disobedience’. - Ernesto Oroza

What if our phones doesn’t trust us? We set so many alarms - sometimes we snooze or sometimes we set up multiple alarms minutes apart from each other-. How can our phones know that we woke up // also maybe they can train us to wake up with just one alarm. 

Our negative habit is setting up multiple alarms, and what is our phone trains us. We train them with giving them our all datas anyways so why not do vica

versa. Using positive punishment, we can have set of games  and activities when the alarm goes on and person has to complete a bunch of tasks to close the alarm. 

a. the phone can be put in a jigsaw puzzle kinda box first. So mentally challenging activity first.
b. then, using the screen, you get a bunch of text-based questions. you either have to read a paragraph and answer questions or you get simple math equations.
c. you either have to sing a line of a song or a sound-based activity. 

If you don’t complete the tasks you can’t turn off your alarm and it keeps getting louder. 

Why are we letting our phone choose how we are suppose to unlock our phones? Why don’t we have any agency in this? Our main struggle is how mostly during winter we are all wearing scarves/beanies/gloves etc. and most of the time the faceID doesn’t work. So you have to enter the code but if you’re wearing gloves yo

u either have to take them off or buy the special gloves with the sensitive-thumb feature. What if we have a feature where people can choose which body part they want to use in order to unlock. We wanted somethig more practical at first. Then thought

about how not everybody has all body parts - so could turn into a more inclusive design too.  

We looked at multipoint touch technology - so now you have up to 10 touch points. So you buy this kit, it comes with an app, you can use different body parts to unlock yor phone and you can change the body part whenever you want. 

To prototype it, we bought a squisy toy and cut it. and put it on the back of our phones like a case. Our initial idea was something like this where you put through your ear for example and the thing makes a mold of your ear. Then whenever you put your ear into it your phone unlocks. But then that means you have to make different molds each time you want to change. What if we have a material that comes back to its original shape when you release. But it would have sensors to sens the multitouch.